The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-08-17
EISNAECK'S ZIG SCHEE!;.
\ Remarkable Project Which the German
Chancellor is SaiG to Have i'll We've
Germany Wants Holland.

\ Remarkable Project Which the Germa
Chancellor is SaiG to Have in View.
Germany Wants Holland.
Especial 20 the New York Herald)
FRANKFORT, August S.-By a yer
lucky coincidence | have just had
highly interesting conversation with
foreign diplomatist whose high position
enables him to have as clear an insigh
into the views ard ulterior aims OF Prince
Bismarck as perhaps any man living cal
have. The diplomatist in question wa;
passing through Frankfort on his way
to fashionable German watering place
and the fortune OF travel placed us n ths
same railway carriage.
1 called the diplomatist's attention tc
the report published by the BrusseI:
Gazette to the effect that the German
staff were completing a measure by
which il twenty-four hours some 100, coo
German troops could be thrown intc
Holland. The diplomatist said:
That report is SO near to the truth
that it is sure to be contradicted. Gec.
man designs upon Holland, are, in 10y
opinion, the key note of Prince Bis
marck's future projects. Prince Bis
marck, il he cloaEs his acts, seldom con.
ceais his opinions, and I have serious
reasons that justify my conviction that
before long Prince Bismarck will, by an
aGroit move, use Holland as the means,
strange as it may seem at first sight, OF
cemcntirg friendship with France and
OF acquiring colonla! empire for Ger
many"
remarked: 81 don't quite understand
you. How could this be done?''
'tIn this way. Suppose some day
Germany were to say to France, You
may have Alsace. Lorraine back again
provided you will let Germany Lave
carte blanche elsewhere and agree to
Germany absorbing Holland and all the
Holland colonies a proposition to re-
turn the lost provinces would be received
in France with leaps and bounds of Joy.
At heart the French and Germans 10
not hate each other nearly as bitterly es
the French and English do.
81 firmly believe that Prince Bismarck
really contemplates such a move. The
Chancellor never follows wcll-beaten
lines of diplomatic routine. His genius
is as indefnable as that of poet, a
founder of religion, or OF an artist. His
diplomatic thunderboits strike at one
moment in Schleswig- -Holstein, then in
Austria and again in France. He is not
the man to have made such extraordina-
ry sacrifices to lay the foundation of
German colonization unless he felt sure
Of rcapiDg rich harvest.
s:The Chancellor knows that every
German who emigrates to America IS
forever lost to Germany. The moment
Germany has colonies of her own this
vast drain upon u, Tatheriand can not
only be checked, out transformed into q
priceless source of strength. The vast
colonies Of Holland offer exactly what
! Germany wants. They could be at once
made profitable without spending sin
gle tlaler. Holland has sunk millions
of gulden and thousands of men in Java
ard Sunatra. With GermaI organiza-
ton and energy the Dutch indies would
form sort OF wedge or strategic vantage
ground, dividing England's two great
|
prince Bismarck feels that France
ana Germany are natural allies, and that
the real eremy Of Germany, France and
Russia is England. 1t is on this basis
that the future OF Europe and Asia is to
be settled-the Continent for the Cont
uentais; Germany to cement lasting
friendship with France by giving her
back Asace-Loraine and thereby realize
her magnificent dream of colonial en-
pire; and Russia, under the pgis OF
Germany and France, to secure the road,
not only to Constantinople, but to a
much coveted port on the Indian Ocean,
between Persia and British India.
'sIt is to-day not France, but En- gland,
that IS the Chancellor's bette noire.
Everywhere he turns it is England that
opposes his interests. II the Balkan
Peninsula it is England that IS straining
every nerve to create small Independent
nationaiGes into barriers against Russian
and Austrian conquest. And as to the
domination that Bismarck is trying to
bring about in Egypt, England is the
dog IN the manger that prevents Bis
marck's policy OF placing Egypt under
French or continental control. In Cen
tral Asia it is England that prevents
Russia from developing southward-a
policy which was Away felt by Bismarck
to be necessity, in order to enable
Germany to hold her own in Central
Europe. Everywhere it is England that
stands in the ChancelIor's way"
And here the diplomatist lighted a
fresh cigar, and added, with significant
smile:
SIN spite OF these plain facts England,
in the present naval mannuvres, seems
to have utterly ignored the possibility
OF defence against German or an allied
IRE nch, German and Russian fleet at
tacizing her from the North Sea- The
British naval authorities seem to have
only provided for the case of French
invaders coming from Cherbourg or
Boulogne!''
Sam Jones at ChautauIua.